Improvement in cuff-buttons, studs



F. CAPRON."

CUFF-BUTTUNS, swans, m.

.186,987 Pa.tented Feb. 6, 1877.

WITNESSES INVENTUR UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FRANK E. OAPRON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

iMPROVEMENT IN CUFF-BUTTONS, STUDS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,987, dated February 6. 1877; application filed December 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. CAPRON, of the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Buttons, Studs, &o., of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in comhining, with the stem or stems of a cuff-butten or stud, a hinged holding-disk, so made that it may be turned up edgewise for inser- H is'the holding-disk, which has a short stem, K, which is pivoted to the stem B by the pin b. O is a flat spring-plate, made as shown in Fig. 3, having a hole through the center, to allow the stem K to pass.

the spring 0 in place. An inspection of Fig. 2 will show that the spring 0, in bearing against the shoulders D D, will hold the holding-disk H either at right angles to the stem B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or, in case the part H is turned as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, parallel to it.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the shouldered stem B B with the disk H and disk-spring U, constructed and arranged substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

FRANK E. UAPRON.

Witnesses: WILLIAM A. Low HERBERT S. OAPRON.

The hinge end of V the stem B, being shouldered at D D, holds 

